Video: Need to Know
NEED TO KNOW is an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting. It breaks through the limitations of the broadcast schedule by means of a web-based production model that empowers audiences to "tune in" anytime and anywhere. A cross-media initiative built around a wide community of journalists and producers, with input from an engaged audience, NEED TO KNOW covers five primary beats: the economy; the environment and energy; health; security; and culture. Stories, interviews, blogs and photo features are continually added to and updated online, with the production teams inviting interaction and input from online readers and users who are on the lookout for the latest information on a given subject. Each week's online story development culminates in the weekly broadcast, curated from the week's reporting by the various beat teams. The broadcast features documentary-style field reports, both domestic and international, short features and studio-based interviews and conversation to complement and advance the produced reports.
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Need To Know | David Graeber on the History of Debt | PBS (#166)
Misconceptions about debt. 07:52
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Need To Know | Fri., August 5, 2011 | PBS (#165)
Full Program: Stuxnet, urban parks, breast cancer trials. 53:53
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Need To Know | The thin green line: Investing in urban parks | PBS (#165)
New York City's High Line and urban parks. 08:24
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Need To Know | Ken Herman on Rick Perry's presidential ambitions | PBS (#165)
Ken Herman discusses Rick Perry's ambitions. 07:14
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Need To Know | Benjamin Skinner on the world of modern-day slavery. | PBS (#165)
Benjamin Skinner on modern day slavery. 07:01
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Need To Know | Fri., July 29, 2011 | PBS (#164)
Full Program: Adults with autism, Tricia Rose, food safety, broadband. 53:47
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Need To Know | Adult autism | PBS (#164)
Two families struggle to care for their autistic adult sons. 16:42
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Need To Know | Peter Bell on advocacy for adults with autism | PBS (#164)
Peter Bell on advocacy for autistic adults. 07:29
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Need To Know | Food safety | PBS (#164)
A report on food choking incidents among children. 07:40
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Need To Know | In Perspective: Tricia Rose | PBS (#164)
Tricia Rose on inequality and wealth distribution. 02:56
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Need To Know | A generation with autism, graduating into the unknown | PBS (#164)
For autistic young adults, graduation is bittersweet. 04:18
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Need To Know | Fri., July 22, 2011 | PBS (#163)
Full Program: Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste, hacking. 53:34
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Need To Know | Gabriella Coleman on the world of hackers | PBS (#163)
Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman discusses her research on hackers. 10:51
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Need To Know | Nuclear waste solution? | PBS (#163)
Alison Stewart tours an underground nuclear waste disposal facility. 16:41
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Need To Know | Interview: Jeff Schapiro on Eric Cantor | PBS (#163)
Jeff Schapiro discusses Republican congressman Eric Cantor 08:46
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Need To Know | Famine in Somalia | PBS (#163)
Need to Know reports on the famine in Somalia. 04:14
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Need To Know | Richard Brookhiser on this summer in Washington politics | PBS (#163)
Richard Brookhiser discusses the recent political machinations in Washington. 08:53
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Need To Know | Fri., July 15, 2011 | PBS (#162)
Full Program: California nuclear safety, over-population. 53:57
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Need To Know | Standing room only | PBS (#162)
The overpopulation fright of the 1960s. 09:25
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Need To Know | Phillip Longman and Julia Whitty on population control | PBS (#162)
Reporters Phillip Longman and Julia Whitty discuss the challenges of population control. 10:19
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